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Richmond Forum

About The Richmond Forum:The Richmond Forum has been presenting the most engaging, influential, entertaining and educational speakers in the world to stimulate, inspire and inform 4,500 patrons at each of five programs every season. The Richmond Forum is increasingly known nationally for producing programs that are innovative, compelling, and often “one and only” events that can’t be seen anywhere else. Because our patrons have become accustomed to seeing the best speakers in the world, they have high expectations for each new season. Speakers always know to bring something special to The Richmond Forum.

On the day following the 2017 inauguration, presidential historians Jon Meacham and Doris Kearns Goodwin compare and contrast President Donald J. Trump with previous U.S. presidents, finding both similarities and sharp contrasts.

Goodwin and Meacham were onstage at America’s largest non-profit lecture series, The Richmond Forum, for a conversation moderated by Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition.

On April 2, 2016 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. sat down in front of a Richmond, Virginia audience of 4,500 with Richmond’s native son and two-time Super Bowl quarterback Russell Wilson for a discussion and discovery of the family legacy and influences that have made Wilson the man he is today.